69 Best Database Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Database Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 138 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $10.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $154.0m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Cockroach Labs logo

Cockroach Labs

Cockroachs Labs is the New York based company behind Cockroach DB, an open source, distributed SQL database.

9

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

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PlanetScale

PlanetScale is a database-as-a-service platform acting as a middleware system for MySQL.

4

Funding Rounds

$108.0m

Money raised

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Bigchain DB

BigchainDB is a scalable blockchain database that enables developers and enterprise to deploy blockchain proof-of-concepts, platforms and apps with a scalable blockchain database.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.4m

Money raised

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MariaDB

Database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of mysql

6

Funding Rounds

$237.0m

Money raised

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RethinkDB

RethinkDB provides an open-source distributed NoSQL document-oriented database storing JSON documents and scaling data for applications.

4

Funding Rounds

$12.2m

Money raised

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Memgraph

Memgraph is an in-memory Cypher-compatible graph database.

5

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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Human Longevity Inc.

Human Longevity is a genomic-based, health intelligence company empowering proactive healthcare and enabling a life better lived.

6

Funding Rounds

$399.8m

Money raised

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Crunchbase

Crunchbase is company that offers an online platform for discovering information related to private and public businesses.

6

Funding Rounds

$276.5m

Money raised

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VoltDB

VoltDB is a Bedford, Massachusetts-based developer of an in-memory SQL and relational database offering transaction processing in a horizontal scale-out platform.

6

Funding Rounds

$44.8m

Money raised

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Airtable

A company developing a cloud-based collaboration platform for professional teams to build software specific to their line of work or particular project. It was founded in 2013 and is located in San Francisco, California.

8

Funding Rounds

$1.4b

Money raised

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ClickHouse

ClickHouse is an open-source database management software developed originally by Yandex before being incorporated in 2021 by Aaron Katz, Alexey Milovidov, and Yury Izrailevsky.

2

Funding Rounds

$300.0m

Money raised

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SingleStore

SingleStore is a San Francisco-based database software and analytics company offering a platform to help companies operationalize their data.

9

Funding Rounds

$434.1m

Money raised

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Aiven

Aiven is a company that offers a managed open-source and multi-cloud data platform.

7

Funding Rounds

$428.8m

Money raised

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Pave (company)

Pave is a software company specializing in developing compensation documenting solutions for businesses.

4

Funding Rounds

$24.0m

Money raised

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Redis

Redis is a Mountain View, California-based developer of an open-source, in-memory database platform, the open-source Redis, and provides enterprise software as a cloud service built upon the product.

10

Funding Rounds

$356.8m

Money raised

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MindsDB

MindsDB is a Berkeley, California-based developer of machine learning capabilities capable of being integrated into databases.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.6m

Money raised

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Q-Sensei

Q-Sensei is a Brooklyn-based software company developing an enterprise search and analytics software.

5

Funding Rounds

$11.7m

Money raised

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Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo is a San Francisco-based software and data company developing a digital data reliability platform for monitoring and alerting users around missing or inaccurate data.

5

Funding Rounds

$236.0m

Money raised

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Fluence

Fluence is a decentralized database project and open data market for decentralized applications.

1

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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DataStax

DataStax delivers a distributed cloud database built on Apache Cassandra

6

Funding Rounds

$236.3m

Money raised

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Fauna Inc

Fauna Inc is a data application programming interface for applications.

5

Funding Rounds

$81.8m

Money raised

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StepZen

StepZen is a San Jose, California-based software as a service (SaaS) company offering a GraphQL API development service.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

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TigerGraph

A computer software company with a graph analytics platform. It was founded in 2012 and is located in Redwood City, California.

5

Funding Rounds

$231.0m

Money raised

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Stardog Union

A company offering a data unification and data graphing platform.

8

Funding Rounds

$44.3m

Money raised

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Collibra

Collibra is an end-to-end data intelligence platform founded in 2008 by Felix Van De Maele.

15

Funding Rounds

$928.6m

Money raised

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Quest Software

Quest Software is a division of dell inc.; former company founded in 1987 by Vinny Smith.

2

Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

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LunaDNA

Luna DNA is company providing a marketplace for genetic data using blockchain based data storage.

3

Funding Rounds

$10.6m

Money raised

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ScyllaDB

A software company offering a NoSQL database compatible with Apache Cassandra.

5

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

Money raised

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Phylagen

A biotechnology company using the environmental microbiome to verify the origin of goods in global supply chains.

2

Funding Rounds

$14.0m

Money raised

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Fluree

Fluree is a Winston Salem, NC-based company developing a web3 data platform.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.5m

Money raised

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Nxin

Also known as Beijing Nxin Internet Technology, Nxin operates an agricultural internet platform providing data, e-commerce and financial service for the agricultural industry.

2

Funding Rounds

$53.0m

Money raised

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Relation

Relation is building a social infrastructure on Web3.

1

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

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Viagogo

Viagogo is a London-based company founded in 2006 by Eric Baker.

5

Funding Rounds

$65.0m

Money raised

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Songkick

Soundkick is a technology company providing an online directory of music concerts and a ticketing vendor platform.

6

Funding Rounds

$31.6m

Money raised

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Cloudant

Cloudant provides a NoSQL database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for web and mobile applications. It participated in the S07 cohort of Y Combinator. IBM acquired Cloudant in 2014.

7

Funding Rounds

$17.3m

Money raised

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Trackvia

A software company offering a low-code development platform for business operations.

4

Funding Rounds

$7.1m

Money raised

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PrivacyHawk

Privacyhawk is a personal data protection app that helps reduce peoples' digital footprint and reduces their risk of scams and fraud.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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YugaByte

Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.

7

Funding Rounds

$307.0m

Money raised

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Kinetica DB

Kinetica DB is a database company.

2

Funding Rounds

$65.0m

Money raised

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Edge Intelligence

A company offering a distributed analytics platform for edge and hybrid cloud computing.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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LyteLoop

LyteLoop is a Great Neck, New York-based photonic data storage company using fiber optics to store large quantities of data.

1

Funding Rounds

$40.0m

Money raised

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Aster Data Systems

Aster Data provides big data management and analysis solutions for businesses that handle data-driven applications.

4

Funding Rounds

$53.0m

Money raised

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Plaxo

Plaxo is a Sunnyvale, California-based company founded in 2002 by Sean Parker, Rikk Carey, Todd Masonis and Cameron Ring.

4

Funding Rounds

$28.3m

Money raised

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TensorFlight

TensorFlight is a property data and AI technology for insurance founded by Robert Kozikowski.

4

Funding Rounds

$4.1m

Money raised

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Tamr

Tamr is an enterprise software company that uses AI to enable enterprise companies with data scattered across multiple different databases to clean and integrate corporate data efficiently and accurately, making data that was formerly inaccessible available for corporate analytics and decision-making.

3

Funding Rounds

$28.0m

Money raised

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EnterpriseDB

EnterpriseDB is a Bedford, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2004 by Andy Palmer.

4

Funding Rounds

$50.5m

Money raised

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ESG Book

ESG Book is a global leader in sustainability data and technology, trusted by many of the world's largest financial organisations.

3

Funding Rounds

$110.0m

Money raised

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Neon

neon-free is a neobank based in Switzerland offering Personal accounts including a debit card, with all transactions being managed from an iPhone or Android application. neon-free currently accepts to open mobile bank accounts for residents of Switzerland.

8

Funding Rounds

$135.8m

Money raised

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Anywhere.fm

Anywhere.FM provides a cloud-based platform for uploading, playing and sharing music. Imeem acquired Anywhere.FM in 2008.

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0k

Money raised

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Label Insight

Label Insight is a SaaS company that provides insights on food label data to government, retailers, manufacturers and app developers.

3

Funding Rounds

$21.7m

Money raised

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GeoSpock

GeoSpock is a database technology company based in Cambridge, UK and with international offices in Singapore and Tokyo. The company was founded by Dr Steve Marsh

5

Funding Rounds

$40.0m

Money raised

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InfluxData

InfluxData is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by Todd Persen.

3

Funding Rounds

$111.0m

Money raised

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mLab (company)

mLab is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2011 by Will Shulman.

2

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

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Panoply

Panoply is a company founded in 2015 by Roi Avinoam.

2

Funding Rounds

$23.0m

Money raised

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Clustrix

ClustrixDB is a scale-out SQL database with a distributed shared-nothing architecture, automatic data redistribution, and built-in fault tolerance, accessible by a SQL interface with MySQL features.

5

Funding Rounds

$45.3m

Money raised

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RudderStack

RudderStack is an easily solve hard customer data problems founded in 2019 by Shvetank Jain.

2

Funding Rounds

$26.0m

Money raised

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Dgraph

Dgraph is an open source, low latency, high throughput, native and distributed graph database.

4

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised

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PingCAP

PingCAP is a company founded in 2015.

3

Funding Rounds

$370.0m

Money raised

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Aerospike

Aerospike is a high-performance, NoSQL database designed for real-time, mission-critical applications. It is known for its speed, scalability, and reliability, making it suitable for use cases that require low-latency data access and high throughput. Aerospike is optimized for speed, providing sub-millisecond latency for read and write operations.I

2

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised

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FirstlLight

FirstLight is an Albany, New York-based telecommunications equipment company founded in 1999.

2

Funding Rounds

$44.5m

Money raised

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Imply (company)

Imply is a Burlingame, California-based company founded in 2015 by Vadim Ogievetsky, Fangjin Yang, Gian Merlino and Eric Tschetter.

3

Funding Rounds

$143.3m

Money raised

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Timescale

Timescale is a New York-based company founded in 2015 by Michael Freedman.

5

Funding Rounds

$180.6m

Money raised

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Spathios

Short-term space reservations marketplace.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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OtterTune, Inc.

OtterTune, Inc. is an AI-Powered Database Admin founded in 2020 by Andy Pavlo.

5

Funding Rounds

$29.1m

Money raised

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VividCortex

VividCortex is an Austin, Texas-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

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Orb (loyalty program company)

Orb is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2014 by Masaaki Nakatsu.

5

Funding Rounds

$4.7m

Money raised

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ObjectBox

ObjectBox is a company founded in 2015 by Vivien Dollinger.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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QuestDB

QuestDB is an open-source SQL database designed to process time-series data.

2

Funding Rounds

$14.3m

Money raised

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Silk

Silk is a company founded in 2019 by Dani Golan.

2

Funding Rounds

$80.0m

Money raised